(NO SOLOS) Ribbit Regime T1 · Borderline Broke

114 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-19, 21-31 and 43-45, and 1 more place -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
(NO SOLOS) RIBBIT REGIME T1 · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 32, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 17 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 37-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 58-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 10 sections: 65 keep time, 23 are fills, 5 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-57.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART H
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDHS8WA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is (NO SOLOS) Ribbit Regime T1?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is (NO SOLOS) Ribbit Regime T1 hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in (NO SOLOS) Ribbit Regime T1?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 32, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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